Voice alterations and stammering: language problems?

Abstract

Three perspectives demonstrate the relation between voice and language on the speech-language pathology clinic: the organic production of sound, the suprasegmental or prosodical element, and the inalienable constituent of verbal interaction. Stammering is presented as a context of this relation. On the two first perspectives, the voice is a support for oral expression.On the third one, the voice is considered na inalienable constituent of language, what implies to the knowledge that problems and alterations, while still organic, will manifest themselves when one tries to say something to somebody. The poliphony and intersubjectivety are revealed mainly in dissonance on the alterations of voice or on stammering.Therefore, it is this confrontation of voices, practiced every day, that is the focus of the therapy, so that the negotiation of senses make possible a vivid oral expression, with all the necessary tones, including the modified ones.